When learning to drive, you will be expected to practice a number of manoeuvres – From bay parking (Which we offered some advice on recently here ) to the turn-in-the-road, and even the emergency stop – These finer points of handling your vehicle will be essential once you have passed your test. However one point you […]

Parallel parking can be one of the trickiest manoeuvres to master, especially as a young or learner driver. So here at Britannia, we have decided to give you a helping hand with this. We’re nice like that. – Firstly, always start practising in a safe place, where you are unlikely to damage your own car […]

Drivers in England will get 10 minutes’ grace before being fined if they stay too long in council-owned car parking spaces, the government has announced. The changes are expected to come in within weeks and will apply to all on-street and off-street council parking spots. Other measures in the Deregulation Bill include a right for […]

A mother was forced to wait 30 minutes before the driver of the Audi parked next to her returned since he has parked so close she couldn’t get in. Stephanie Adams had parked her white Vauxhall Corsa at the Lace Market car park in Nottingham but when she returned she found a navy blue Audi […]

The Bay Parking exercise has been a part of the driving test since May 5th 1999 – and so without this crucial piece of knowledge, you run the risk of failing your driving test. Many students are not aware that when the examiner instructs you to reverse park into a bay, you are actually entitled […]

Vanessa Price, the owner of a Smart car, was fined £50 for parking at a right angle to the kerb in an on-street parking bay. Although the ability of Smart cars, which are less than 9ft long, to fit into small spaces at right angles to the pavement is well known, and a unique selling […]

The Government is considering a proposal that would give motorists a five-minute grace period before a ticket is issued. Many councils already allow motorists a limited duration before writing a ticket but it is a grey area which would be cleared up by being written into law. This forms part of proposals that followed a […]

Nearly one in six drivers have admitted to ‘bump parking’, carrying on driving until they hit the adjacent car, with the figure being as high as 26% when considering drivers in London. Bump parking is one of many bad parking habits, others include parking on double yellow lines (committed by 9% of drivers), parking in […]

It has been found that more than half of motorists’ appeals against fines are found in their favour but few motorists do in fact appeal. Barrie Segal, owner of the campaigning website AppealNow, has reviewed roughly 60,000 parking tickets on behalf of motorists and has found a number of ‘scams’. One in particular is the […]

A review is being considered on parking restrictions on double yellow lines. Currently, parking is prohibited, unless stated, on double yellow lines for all vehicles apart from blue badge holders, emergency services and those making commercial deliveries and pick-ups. It has now been suggested that unaffordable town centre parking is a significant contributor to the […]